The Thing Quotes

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

I tell you one thing that's great about children. They don't need a show to have fun. What do they need? A book of matches, some oily rags, a little brother... that's all they need.

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.

The one thing I would tell everyone - myself included - would be to just chill out. Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

Taking one step, doing one thing every day that will get you closer to your own financial dream.

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.

I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.